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Topic: May Flowers
A companion to the April Showers topic from last month.
I’ve chosen books with flowers, trees and leaves!
Poet empress Everlasting Dark Forgetting Tricky business Faerie bargains Agnes Aubert
The Poet Empress The Everlasting A Dark Forgetting Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter
Enchanted Greenhouse Steep Savage PathSpellshopHoney witchHouse of Roots and Ruin
The Enchanted Greenhouse A Steep and Savage Path The Spellshop The Honey Witch House of Roots and Ruin
The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.
Hope you’ve had a good week!
We had a long weekend as it was May Day on Monday and I can safely say I didn’t do any of the jobs I wanted to do!!! I procrastinated the days away! I did do all my washing and put it away though so I call that a win!
My son starts his GCSE’s tomorrow and I am more nervous than he is!
I did read a whole book though (who am I?!) I also thoroughly enjoyed it!
We Burned So Bright
🎧 We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my review soon!
Book Review – Shadow Prince by Helen Scheuerer Feature – Stacking the Shelves: April 2026
Unboxing – Illumicrate: April 2026 Celebration – My Blogiversary!
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! And audiobooks. Don’t forget audiobooks!
In other words, if you can read it or if it can be read to you – no matter how you got it – it belongs in Stacking the Shelves.
The Stacking the Shelves meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Reviews. It is currently hosted by Reading Reality.
3 pre-orders, a book box book and an e-arc. Honestly, I don’t think that’s too bad! What do you think?
Thistlemarsh Rites Starling Mating GameHeart So GreenUnicorn Hunters
Books I Bought
A Heart So Green by Lyra Selene The Mating Game by Lana Ferguson Rites of the Starling by Devney Perry Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan (Illumicrate)
In a realm on the brink of destruction, evil forces snatch innocents to suffer fates worse than death. Only a monster hunter and her monstrous enemy can stop them.
Drue Emmerson, noblewoman-turned-ranger, wants one vengeance. With her family slain by the vicious shadow wraiths, she’s determined to defend her fallen kingdom. And that means carving out the hearts of every dark creature she can find.
Talemir Starling, celebrated warrior of the realms, has a dangerous he’s a half-wraith, kin to the creatures wreaking devastation on the world. He’ll do anything to keep his true nature under control… especially around the woman who’s vowed to destroy him.
When someone Drue cares about disappears, all signs point to Talemir’s kind. But he’s determined to prove he’s no monster, and to seek answers of his own. Begrudgingly, the pair must join forces to uncover the deadly truth.
But in a world of chaos and carnage, where danger lurks at every turn, deadlier still is their attraction to one another – the one thing that might just spell the end of them both.
Will Talemir win Drue’s heart? Or will she carve his out before the end?
Although I already knew parts of Drue and Talemir’s story, this book added so much more depth for me!
Whilst I enjoyed it, I didn’t love it quite as much as the other Legends/Ashes of Thezmarr books. I think that mainly came down to the fact that I didn’t really gel with Drue, although I can’t fault how fiercely she loves and protects the people she cares about.
Talemir, on the other hand, fits perfectly alongside the other Warswords: cocky, built, arrogant… and he has wings. Honestly, what more could you want?!!!
The plot was strong, the writing was engaging, and it earns major bonus points for featuring a one-tent storyline, always a win!!!!
If you’re looking for a spicy romantasy that can technically be read as a standalone, this is one to pick up… but trust me, you really need to read Legends of Thezmarr!
Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Topic: Authors You Wish Were Still Writing Today
Well I have failed with this topic because I only have 4! Also I don’t fully know if these authors are still writing or not (I’m so rubbish!!!)
Cora Carmack Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (together) Nicole Jacquelyn Nora Sakavic (I never know when she’s going to publish!)
The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.
Hope you’ve had a good week!
Just work for me this week and my son is knee deep in revision (with nagging from me!) as his GCSEs start next week.
I just scraped in this week with reading 1 book. I really don’t know where my reading mojo has gone. I really hope it comes back soon because I love reading and my tbr is huge (which I think is part of the problem!)
Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Topic: Freebie!
As books feature in most of the TTT posts I wanted to do something connected with books. I’ve done bookish candles before so today I thought I’d do BOOKISH ART!
Tric and Mia from Nevernight Poppy and Hawke from FBAA Cardan and Jude from Cruel Prince Kal from Aurora Rising
Gabe from Empire of the Vampire Shiori and Takkan from Six Crimson Cranes Crescent City characters Serpent and Dove characters Nik from Illuminae Files Spensa and Jorgen from Skyward
Most travellers are running from—or searching for—something. But not Shadowhunter Matthew Fairchild and his loyal golden retriever, Oscar Wilde. No. Matthew is searching for himself aboard the Majestic, a grand 19th century ocean liner sailing from Greece to Constantinople.
Matthew wants nothing more than to mourn the death of a friend and peacefully enjoy his travels before reuniting with his friends James Herondale and Cordelia Carstairs at the London Institute of Shadowhunters—a secret society of angel-blooded humans who protect the mundane world from demons and Downworlders. But that’s interrupted when someone is murdered on the ship—and a vampire Downworlder lurks in the darkness.
Together with Sylvain Verlac, a mysterious and captivating Parisian Shadowhunter with a secret grief of his own, Matthew must find the murderer on the Majestic before death strikes again.
Oh Matthew, how I love thee, you poor tortured soul.
He’s been travelling with the lovely Oscar, he’s on his way home, and yet he still feels lost…
‘When I set out at first, it was to find something. And I just can’t say I’m sure I’ve discovered it yet.’
Then there’s a murder. And then there’s Sylvain (what I wouldn’t give to hear him say ‘Mathieu’!), so what’s a Shadowhunter to do but investigate?
It’s been a while since I last read a Shadowhunter book. I’ve reread most of them at least twice, and The Infernal Devices at least five times (Will H forever!). But reading this felt like stepping back into that world—falling in love with it all over again. Steles, the Merry Thieves, parabatai, runes, the Clave, Mundanes, Downworlders… I realized how much this world and these characters mean to me. They don’t just feel familiar. They feel like home.
CJRTB Books 